Siegfried Sassoon Quotes

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• The song was wordless; The singing will never be done.
• For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time…
• The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.
• Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
• Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight.
• I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.
• His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fellHis troubled voice:…
• I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
• I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by…
• In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
• I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which…
• Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.
• In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record…
• Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
• I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have…
• Who's this—alone with stone and sky? It's only my old dog and I— It's only him; it's only me; Alone with stone and grass and…
• EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards…
• The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am…
• Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy. We found the little kingdom of our passion that all can share who walk the…
• December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries. While nightfall, sad…

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